Articles filed under Washington Post
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Flashes of light can be a sign of a dangerous eye conditionJul 30, 2016 7:08 am - Have you ever had black specks floating around in your vision? Patrick Muffler noticed some one day. "I saw funny V-shaped floaters in my eye," he says. When he woke up...
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Why we don't count to 10 before hitting 'send'Jul 30, 2016 7:07 am - By now it should be abundantly clear that anything written in email could very well end up read by anyone with an Internet connection. This we know. It's the lesson taug...
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Americans love technology, but do we want it inside our bodies?Jul 30, 2016 7:00 am - It's clear from our screen-obsessed society that people love technology. But how do we feel about implanting new technology into our own bodies? Do people who never let ...
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The VCR is officially deadJul 30, 2016 7:00 am - The videocassette recorder that revolutionized home entertainment by allowing television audiences to capture their favorite shows on tape and watch them at their leisur...
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Your health: Repairing teeth with stem cellsJul 30, 2016 7:00 am - Repairing teeth with stem cells Walking into a dentist's office could be less of a frightening thing in the future if scientists Kyle Vining of Harvard and Adam Cel...
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Reagan shooter John Hinckley Jr. to be freed after 35 yearsJul 27, 2016 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — John W. Hinckley, Jr., will be released from a government psychiatric hospital more than 35 years after he attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan ...
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Big Ten's Delany hints at retirement by end of new TV dealJul 26, 2016 1:00 am - Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, perhaps the most powerful figure in college athletics, said Tuesday that he doesn't plan to be in his role when the league renegotiates ...
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Sanders backs Clinton-Kaine ticket, but his supporters jeerJul 25, 2016 1:00 am - PHILADELPHIA - Democrats faced dramatic eruptions of party discord Monday that threatened to distract from high-profile speeches meant to convey unity on the first day o...
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The part-time job that can pay more than $250,000 a yearJul 24, 2016 7:17 am - The people who sit on the boards of America's largest corporations got a modest raise last year. Corporate directors at Fortune 500 companies saw a three percent increas...
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The job nobody can seem to keep: college presidentJul 24, 2016 7:16 am - When Temple University hired Neil Theobald as its president in 2013, some at the Philadelphia institution with 37,000 students described his selection as a harbinger of ...